Matrimandir Gardens

On the Matrimandir Peace area - 2003

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In a conversation with Satprem on 23.4.66 the Mother mentioned: "...The city already exists. And the remarkable thing is that I simply told Roger the broad outlines, asking him if he was interested. Then he went back to France and he received my formation (my old formation, which I myself had left asleep); he received it there. I found that very interesting. He received it, he said to me, 'it came all at once, I seemed to be possessed by something, and in one night the whole thing was done.'..."

This photograph was published in the first UNESCO brochure in November 1966. Its text said: "The axes of penetration towards the center create a convergence, a densification of buildings, increasing to a point where they suddenly open out upon the gardens of Unity. In the center of these gardens, surrounded by a lake will be situated 'the Sanctuary of Truth', and the Matrimandir (Shrine of the Mother)."